Immediate changes in feedforward postural adjustments following voluntary motor training

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 537-546

  Tsao, Henry ^a   Hodges, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feedforward postural adjustment; Low back pain; Motor control; Motor training; Training transfer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGASTROGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TRAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VOLUNTEER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS;

EID: 34547097759     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0950-z     Document Type: Article

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